This particular hybrid is only a few months old, but is showing some of promise. It’s one of the few S. ‘Adrian Slack’ hybrids I did last year. The pitcher is still too young to really tell what the mature pitcher will look like, but a few hints and notes of what it may be like could be can be seen. Another interesting plant to look forward to in the future. 😉
[Photo: Sarracenia courtii x ‘Adrian Slack’, under 1 year old]
Howdy everyone! Hope you’re enjoying your weekend! Now, how about a little weekend getaway, shall we?
All photos in this video were all taken by Bob Hanrahan at his Carnivorous Plantation in Alabama. Now pull up a seat (the video is about 22 minutes long), grab some popcorn, and enjoy the movie! 😉
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Mr. Hanrahan — a very sincere and special thanks to you for sharing this; it is an honor and a delight to have “virtually visited” The Carnivorous Plantation by way of these photos. For now, I must vicariously live through them until I visit in person one day soon. Thank you Bob!
[Sarracenia Seed Pods, collected 8.15.10]
Clockwise from top: S. flava “widemouth” x ‘Adrian Slack’, S. ‘Alucard’ x leucophylla anthocyanin free,
S. “Goliath” x ‘Adrian Slack’, S. oreophila – veined x ‘Adrian Slack, S. ‘Alucard’ x ‘Leah Wikerson’
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It’s that time of year again – today I was out in the grow area harvesting some pods. I left some of the labels on them so you can see how I keep track of the crosses as I do them. I learned the hard way to cover the tag in tape as snails will eat the cardboard and you loose the ID all together. That was one mistake I learned the hard way last year. I did all these crosses only to have the identity taken by snails. DOH!
Anyway, I know the pods may not look like much now but I am hopeful for some of these crosses. Over here it’s been on the cool side of things so many plants and pods seem a little behind. More pods are forthcoming which means more seeds soon! I am really looking forward to some of the ones I did this year … now just gotta figure out where I can put them all… 😉
Howdy y’all! I was out checking some seeds that I started this year and to my delight, saw one sprouting! I did this cross early on this year, harvested seed roughly a month ago, put through about 2 weeks cold stratification in the fridge and… viola!
By the way…I did this same cross last year and only had a few seeds from that pod. A few of those germinated but none survived. (Don’t ask…) I was so torn… anyway, hope to have better success this year.
